Roof-carline.



ARTHUR LIPSCHUTZ, UF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR F '(ADNPLHALF TO HER/BERT `W. VVOLFF, OF ST. LOUIS, ldfitiSOUltl.

Application ined Aprnlzc. i

To all whom it may con/cern,.- Be it known that I, ARTHUR Lirsonnrz, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful RoolCarline, of which the following is such a full, clear, yandfexact description as will enable any one skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming' part 'of this specification.

My invention relates to roof-carlines, and. more particularly to carlines which are pressed or stamped out of sheef-steel or ether sheet metal and adapted to be used in the training of railway-cars, and especially in the type of cars known as freight or bos cars.

One object oi my invention is to economies the amount oi metal used in carlines of the type above referred to without materially decreasing the strength of the carlines.

Another object of. my invention is to so shape the carline that the tendency oi the die to stick in the carline while the saine is being' formed Will be obviated.

Other objects of my invention are to provide the carline with stops for alnitting,` against the side plates of the car and also to provide brackets 'for supporting the purlin-seats.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate one form of carline made in accordance with my invention, together with a portieri of the ear to which the same applied, higure 1 is aside elevation of slightly more than onev halt` of a carline, together with a section of the parts ot' the car adjacent thereto.. Fie'. 2 is a top plan view of the part of the carline shown in Fig. l. Fig. 8 is a section on the line 3 3 of Fig. Q, and Fig. 4 is a section on the line It e of Fig. 2.

Lilie marks of reference reifer to similar parts of the severalviews of the drawings.

.5 represents the ridgepole, 6 the pnrlins, and 7 the side plates, of an ordinary box or freight car. These parts may be ci. any usual form. The carline is pressed or stamped from sheet metal, preferably sheet-steel. The two sides 'l0 of the carline in place of. being parallel, as in the carlincs heretofore in use, are arranged to .lie in intersecting planes, as best Shown in Figs. 3 and rlfhesc sides l() are deepest at the center, tapering' toward the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 30, 1906.

S05. Serial No. 256,578.

ends, as shown in Fig'. l,r Extending' latern ally from the sides iO/"at the upper edge. oi the carline are a pair of continuons flanges 11. These flanges l1 have pressed in thern upwardlyprojecting stops '12, which forni purlin-seats 13 for the pnrlins G and a ridgepole seat lli for the ridge-pole 5. In order to support the seats 13 and le, I form under 60 .said seats Webaped brackets l5, which are pressedi'rorn the metal ot) the sides l0 and the seats 13 and le. Near the ends of the carline l form downwardlysprojecting' stops 16, which are adapted to ahnt against the inn ner faces of the side plates T, these stops 16 being stamped or pressed from the metal ot' the carline. The flanges 1l are provided with suitable bolteholes 1'?, by means of which the carline can be seen red to the side plates Tand to the ridge-pole and purlins 6.

By 'forming the sides of niy carline so that they lie in intersecting,1 planes l am enabled to form a carline having; substantially the sanie dimensionsand strength acarline with vertical sides, but containing; considerably less metal. The iialgiility of! the die Ito stick be tween the vertical sides oi' the carline is also obviated by this construction. It will also be seen that by forming the purlin--seats 1 3 80 y and ridge-pole seat 11i by npwardly-project ingr stops the said seats remain on a line with the rest of the flanges l1, so that the' entire upper edge ci the carline conforms to the roolline. f'

-aving fully described niyv invention, what .l claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United lStates, isu

.1. A metal roei' 1- carline havinp; a body formed of two `folds of sheet metal connected at their lower edges, continuous fianges extending; laterally trom the upper edge of said bodyyand pressedanetal stops in said iianges extending above the upper .tace thereof and' `forming pnrlirr-seats.

2. A. metal rooicarline having a body,

two continuous flanges extending laterally from the upper edge of said body and shaped to conform to the outline ci' the root of the car, and stops integral and continuous wlth said danges but extending above the saine and 'formingl pnrliineeats.

3. nietal reci carline having' a body `tornied ele two folds ci sheet-metal connected at their ower edges, flanges eibendng; acerally from the pperedga Gf s Hcdy forming purlimseas, final bram presse from the mbtal of 'Sad body ages fo.

S supportng'said pux'in-seatr.

4 metaroQf-cane the sides @-15 which e intersecting planes and are pz'oded with horizontally extending angas? said anges' being provided with upwad'y-m I0 Jectlng s'wps formmg purm-sems, ,pressed ,l

macls fm@ Sai seats, zm stops adpted to @but aginst sid@ plates.

.n testimony whereof E have. hereunto set my 522.1151 my sea be presence the *ma Subsbing W-nsss. 

